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Nationalize Natural Gas Production and Save America.

December 21st, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Economics, energy, jobs, Politics, Populism, The Budget

There is one simple and secure way to jump start the economy and sustain it over a decade. That one simple idea is to nationalize the natural gas industry. In fact, not only is it good in a positive way, but the nationalization of the production and distribution of natural gas will prevent a negative…the [...]

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Rick Perry: Bum to Hero to Bum…Before the Campaign Starts!

August 28th, 2011 · Comments Off · Lobbying, Politics, Populism, The Budget

This is how Neoconservatives…aka Neocons…aka the American Kinder, Gentler Fascists…work: they lie, then cover their lies with more lies, then let the truth come out after at least a third of the People have already accepted the lies. Then they retract their lies but only with more lies. A good example is Governor Rick Perry [...]

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Understanding Political Reality

November 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Corporations and Industry, Health Care, Lobbying, Media, Politics

Life is not a game show. The realities of electing the moronic, semi-troglodytic President’s son as President…or having the Supreme-Court-justice son of a rumored Fascist appoint him…should have proved that. From $5 trillion in debt and a balanced budget to a $14 trillion in debt and a commission trying to figure out how to keep [...]

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Raise Taxes or Cut Entitlements–You Decide.

July 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Economics, jobs, Politics, taxes

You should see one particular chart from the Congressional budget office. Here’s what it says: The lowest two quintiles (lowest 40%) of wage earners averaged $17,400 in 1979. The Top One percent of wage earners averaged $167,500 in 1979. By 2007, the 27th year of the Neoconservative Era, the bottom two quintiles made $20,500. That’s [...]

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American Society at a Crossroads. For People or for Corporations?

March 21st, 2010 · Comments Off · Health Care, jobs, Politics

We are facing a serious problem as a society. The problem is whether we will approach our fellow citizens as equals, with equal opportunity for a decent, secure life. Will we also look on our less fortunate fellow Americans and offer them a hand up? Or will we turn inward, striving to maximize our lifestyle [...]

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The Economy Is In Big Trouble—Part II, Our Diminished Future.

February 12th, 2010 · Comments Off · Economics, Politics

To understand your life in the future, you must understand that what happened in the last 8 years, particularly in the last year of the Bush Administration, as described in Part I, is irreversible. We cannot go back and sue all those Tom DeLays or Dick Cheneys, or even whatever number of Democrats joined in [...]

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